Two's company, three's a crowd
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This saying is often used by lovers who want to be by themselves.
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‘Two’s company, three’s a crowd.’
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“Two’s company, three’s a crowd.”
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“Two’s company, three’s a crowd,” is a sound proverb, even when the third is a dog.
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It has been shown that one of the party, at any rate, had reached the “two’s company, three’s a crowd” stage—or for the present purpose four.
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Students are overbooked and underbunked "Two's company, three's a crowd," the clich� goes�especially, as claustrophobic college students are learning this fall, when schools shoehorn three roommates into quarters meant for two.
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